Los Chanckas “yes, we fulfil our promises”

The Wari Empire developed a road system, later improved by the Incas, that managed to communicate most of the empire. The roads that we travelled between Ayacucho and Cusco, through impressive valleys and mountains, are closer to the old system of communication than to modern roads. With plenty of doses of patience, we started our way to Andahuaylas, where we stop overnight to rest. The eleven hours of journey to Andahuaylas were long, but we went through mountains, valleys and high flat areas totally breathtaking. The eleven hours of journey were also enough to get an idea of the immensity and remoteness of the area, but ended up being less than half of the way.
Next day, on board of “Los Chanckas” and under the grandiose motto “yes, we fulfil our promises”, we started, with more doses of patience, what should have been the second and last leg of our journey. Two hours later, the wreckage we were travelling in broke down. Our inept drivers, after a long time screwing and unscrewing different parts, managed to jerry rig the bus and got ready again to go through valleys and cliffs, satisfied with their job. Our risk alert alarms started to ring and we decided, after a heated argument with the drivers, who could not understand our worries, not to get on board . Two hours of wait, and we soon were on board of a new bus that would take us to Abancay, four hours away, where we could rest before continuing, once more, our trip to Cusco. The small inconvenience was that the bus was completely full and Matthew had to stand all the way while I was offered the seat by the driver.
After this experience, the rest of the trip from Abancay to Cusco look extremely easy: the gravel road turn into a proper road, we had a seat each, the bus did not break down in the middle of the road and it only lasted four hours. A luxury! Luckily we are planning to stay a month in Cusco, so there will be no more stories of buses in the near future.
P.S. The Los Chanckas bus appears to have managed to arrive safely to Cusco.